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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5132336 | No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible. | civilization overconfidence | Niall Ferguson | |
| 8ba5270 | It was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America - an idea about the way people should govern themselves. Some people make the mistake of calling that idea 'democracy' and imagining that any country can adopt it merely by holding elections. In reality, democracy was the capstone of an edifice that had as its foundation the rule of law - to be precise, the sanctity of individual freedom and the security of .. | democracy government republic us-history | Niall Ferguson | |
| cc4e242 | Because Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist. | Max Brooks | ||
| 25e3411 | El miedo, el miedo es la mercancia mas valiosa del universo. Encended la television ?Que veis? ?Gente vendiendo productos? NO. Gente vendiendo el miedo que teneis de vivir sin sus productos. El miedo vende | miedo producto ventas | Max Brooks | |
| ad2e426 | But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead. | zombies | Max Brooks | |
| 50e8581 | Unlike the escapee, your team of hunters will be out during the brightest, hottest, most excruciating part of the day. Make sure each hunter is well supplied with water and antisunstroke accessories. | the-zombie-survival-guide | Max Brooks | |
| 5f63b36 | Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers. | H.G. Wells | ||
| bd405c4 | We're eatable ants. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 22267cf | With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 9d4c2c7 | And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. | H.G. Wells | ||
| b1872a2 | When Man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear. But not before. | humans humbleness | H.G. Wells | |
| 71f446e | Now whenever things are so that a lot of people feel they ought to be doing something, the weak, and those who go weak with a lot of complicated thinking, always make for a sort of do-nothing religion, very pious and superior, and submit to persecution and the will of the Lord. | H.G. Wells | ||
| 934eaf4 | It was not the first time that conscience has turned against the methods of research. | science | H.G. Wells | |
| a8d0c70 | This is a mood, however, that comes to me now, I thank God, more rarely. I have withdrawn myself from the confusion of cities and multitudes, and spend my days surrounded by wise books,--bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men. | H.G. Wells | ||
| f6915d2 | The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe -- I have thought since -- I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But | H.G. Wells | ||
| cdc913d | I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the completest, most highly organized system of prejudices and antagonisms in existence. Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church. It pres.. | catholic catholic-church catholicism church emancipation freedom hostile ignorance intimate mankind prejudice prestige | H.G. Wells | |
| 02526cf | The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. | H. G. Wells | ||
| 5a6fb73 | That, of course, was when everything went wrong and the whole world crashed down around my ears. | Darren Shan | ||
| 75fd63a | I will conduct myself with all due decorum." Mr. Crepsley said pompously, then added beneath his breath, "but I will miss her. With all my heart and soul, I miss her." | Darren Shan | ||
| 5f87e97 | Mr. Crepsley was every bit as composed as he'd sworn he would be. He didn't even shed a tear when the funeral litter was set alight. It was only later, when he was alone in his cell, that he wept loudly, and his cries echoed through the corridors and the tunnels of Vampire Mountain, far in the cold, lonely dawn. | Darren Shan | ||
| fabffbd | Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale! | darren-shan humor innuendo larten-crepsley mr-crepsley sexual-innuendo vampire | Darren Shan | |
| 7c95c35 | Normal people don't know how lucky--how blessed--they are. | normal | Darren Shan | |
| 8f86994 | For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights. | Darren Shan | ||
| 30c56a0 | As a warrior, she won't have allowed herself to mourn. But women can't make themselves as detached as men. Our hearts are bigger. We feel loss in a way men don't. Orna has the body and mind of a warrior but her heart is like mine, and I know inside she's weeping. | Darren Shan | ||
| 531f401 | He's a feral child. No mother, no father, no one to care for him or raise him or teach him how to be human. So he's existed much like an animal, without language. He thinks in images, not word." "How strange," Lanaya, sounding amazed. Ryter shakes his head sadly. "Not strange, I'm afaraid. His condition is all too common in the latches. And becoming more common every day." | feral feral-child feral-children | Rodman Philbrick | |
| fb75019 | freak the mighty is the best book I ever read so I recommend it to anyone who likes good books that have different feellings and emotions | Rodman Philbrick | ||
| b0e327a | Well, that's science fiction television for you, though," Abnett said. "Someone's got to be the red shirt." | John Scalzi | ||
| f39bb49 | I didn't mind getting old when I was young, either," I said. "It's the being old now that's getting to me." | John Scalzi | ||
| 0e09cab | It was interesting what you could do, when your enemy was officially your ally. And unaware you knew it was your enemy. | John Scalzi | ||
| 04b9556 | There's a saying: "May you live in interesting times." To begin, it's a curse. "Interesting" in this case uniformly means "Oh god, death is raining down upon us and we shall all perish wailing and possibly on fire." | John Scalzi | ||
| e829d40 | Do your people have racists? People who believe they are inherently superior to all other types of intelligent people?" "We have some," Sorvalh said. "They're generally agreed to be idiots." | John Scalzi | ||
| ea99137 | After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest black hole, so that none of its atoms would ever contaminate this particular universe again. I thought that last part was overkill. | black completed contaminate dome hole imploded launched negotiations overkill particular universe | John Scalzi | |
| ab7484d | It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off. | demonstration effectiveness protest social-change | John Scalzi | |
| df302e9 | Sheila taught me a survival technique for getting through seemingly intolerable situations-boring lunches, stern lectures on attitude or time management, those necessary breakup conversations, and the like: maintaining eye contact, keep your face inscrutable and masklike, with your faintest hint at a Gioconda smile. Keep this up as long as you possibly can, and just as you feel you are about to crack and take a letter opener and plunge it i.. | david rakoff | ||
| 5a1773b | Lenny Bruce described flamenco as being an art form wherein a dancer applauds his own ass. | David Rakoff | ||
| d617482 | Hoped if she kept the dream hidden and frozen She soon would forget that she'd never been chosen. But dreams screams as loud whether thriving or dying And Helen despite herself never stopped trying. | David Rakoff | ||
| da9f151 | No secrets, no longing, no desperate hoping Just reach out and grab from a world cracked open. | David Rakoff | ||
| ef3a5b4 | 5:16 I shotgun two beers, piss out the bedroom window, catcall passing girls, burp violently, put cage fighting on tv, play with myself. I feel manly again. | Tucker Max | ||
| b55310e | His first question shows how well he knows me: TheRoommate: "Did you take any money out of her purse?" | Tucker Max | ||
| a8215a2 | We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out. --THEODORE ROOSEVELT | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 61954e5 | The work I do is not exactly respectable. But I want to explain how it works without any of the negatives associated with my infamous clients. I'll show how I manipulated the media for a good cause. A friend of mine recently used some of my advice on trading up the chain for the benefit of the charity he runs. This friend needed to raise money to cover the costs of a community art project, and chose to do it through Kickstarter, the crowdso.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 0f7dc0b | In life, it doesn't matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you've been given. And the only way you'll do something spectacular is by using it all to your advantage. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d0d5ba6 | My friend the philosopher and martial artist Daniele Bolelli once gave me a helpful metaphor. He explained that training was like sweeping the floor. Just because we've done it once, doesn't mean the floor is clean forever. Every day the dust comes back. Every day we must sweep. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5943f62 | I will keep constant watch over myself and--most usefully--will put each day up for review. For this is what makes us evil--that none of us looks back upon our own lives. We reflect upon only that which we are about to do. And yet our plans for the future descend from the past." --SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 83.2" | Ryan Holiday |